VISUAL Diary

An attempt to subvert social media and stay in touch with those around me. Remember when Instagram was for sharing photos?  

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Sketches

This day was a fun one when we had some horses in the garden at Ásmundarsalur and people were invited to come and sketch using the horses as the models. I made use of the balcony above and shot this overhead of a few people relaxing while enjoying this gorgeous day.

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The Slave Cliffs

The blue of the Atlantic Ocean here was remarkable. Walking here from the parking area really betrays the scenes you’re about to encounter when you reach this part of Sørvágur in the Faroe Islands. Any guess as to why they call this the Slave Cliffs?

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Summer

Trying to be more narrative in the photographs I take. I’m calling the folder I save these in, “Deliberate Photographs.” I want to give the viewer a sense of intention and understanding of the moment the photograph was taken in and in the end, hopefully a story.

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Greenhouse

One of the wonders of Grímsnes, Iceland is the greenhouse restaurant called Fríðheimar. I’ve been conceptualising a science fiction movie that would shoot in Iceland and use spaces like this to substitute for spaceships. When you are in this place you feel like you are in the future, cultivating food to sustain a colony of people who live in a remote part of the universe.

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